Patrick Keisler is a Premier Field Engineer for Microsoft with over 15 years of SQL Server experience working in various fields such as financial, healthcare, and government. He currently holds two MCITP certifications in SQL Server 2008. You can follow him on Twitter or listen to him speak at various SQL Saturdays and user group meetings.

Archives: June 2013

Industry experts will tell you that virtualization of your environment is not done to improve performance, it's done to make it cheaper and easier to manage. The task of most VM administrators is to cram as many VMs into a farm as possible. One of the ways is to accomplish…